Anyone watching ROME on HBO? (HBO HD showing episodes 4 and 5 tonight)

HBO ^ | 25 OCT 05 | DCBRYAN1

[DCBryan1]

I'm pretty much anti-HBO, but as a history major from KU, I enjoyed ancient studies. ROME is by, far, one of the most accurate portrails of Republican Rome and the rise of Iulias Caesar. The only think I do not like about the show is the deleted battle scenes....sigh...thank goodness for Rome: Total War on the PC.....

Anyways, hope you guys can watch it at 7pm cst on HBO HD....

[Perdogg]

I heard there is a bunch of sex and nudity!

[Spok]

"I heard there is a bunch of sex and nudity!"

I watched a couple of episodes during an HBO 'free weekend' and it is decidedly not family fare; I'd call it 'softcore history'.

[Brian Mosely]

Knowing a little bit of history, and watching the show, it's going to be really interesting when Octavian and Mark Antony start plotting against each other next season. The boy will have enough reasons as it is... (Atia, and in the future, his sister)

[Perdogg]

Is Cleopatra hot on the show?

[Brian Mosely]

Ask Titus Pullo...;)

[DCBryan1]

Have you seen "the gift"? LOL...ladies take note...

[Perdogg]

I heard about it. However, a roman woman generally would never have sex with a male slave.

[DCBryan1]

Is Cleopatra hot on the show?

Titus Pullo knows.

[uncitizen]

Well, i'm a woman, but even if i were a guy i'd have to say "no" she isn't really hot. She looks like Ashlee Simpson except with short brown hair.

Rome is very entertaining and funny. My husband and i finally agree on what to watch. He likes the battle aspects and i like how the women are all scheming against each other.

[DCBryan1]

I heard about it. However, a roman woman generally would never have sex with a male slave.

Thats like saying that the Democrats are generally for the rights of the "little guy".

[Dumb_Ox]

So it is porny? Poo.

I finally saw the whole series of I, Claudius this summer. How does Rome compare?

[Perdogg]

Roman women were not much higher in society than slaves. That's why Christianity caught on in Rome. It made men and women equal.

[DCBryan1]

He likes the battle aspects and i like how the women are all scheming against each other.

Since I studied ancient history for a few years, this is one of the major points that I really enjoyed being portrayed. The fact that most patrician men, equites, and land owners were off to war, plundering and building their wealth during "campaign season", the women were left behind to raise the heirs, to continue the business, and keep the family stable and, if possible, in a better, more powerful position when the husband came home. The women at home at the time were more dangerous than the men.

[DCBryan1]

That's why Christianity caught on in Rome. It made men and women equal.

Another good point....HBO's Rome shows the unadulterated sin and debauchery of Roman life during the Republican times....it is a powerful, rich city whose every character have not been blessed with the grace of Christ (who will be born in 36 years)...about 11 B.C.

[DCBryan1]

VINI VIDI VICI PING!

ROME on HBO-HD starts right now! 2 episodes tonight! (4 and 4)

[DCBryan1]

er...episodes 4 and 5!

[cajungirl]

I too saw I Claudius and enjoy both. THis Rome feels more vital and real and has parts on Titus and other common Romans. I love them both. We are watching I Claudius between episodes of Rome. The acting in both is superb,,just wonderful.

[rerat0120]

Remember the movie "Gladiator", with R. Crowe. The rich ladies, would often "rent" out a gladiator for carnal pleasure.

Gladiators were classified as slaves, and could win their freedom.

[teenyelliott]

My husband and I love this show!!! Pullo is absolutely hilarious.

VERY upset that there was no new episode Sunday.

And of course it has sex and violence. It is about Romans. That is all they did. And they ate. There is eating in it, too.

p.s. How is your kitty?